Graduate Schools and Students

News about Graduate Schools and Students, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Chronology of Coverage

Jun. 16, 2015

Bloomberg Philanthropies gives $100 million to Cornell Tech, applied sciences graduate school of Cornell University, to construct technical school on Roosevelt Island; building, to be called Bloomberg Center, is scheduled to open in 2017. MORE

Jun. 14, 2015

Planned residential tower that will house graduate students, faculty and staff on Cornell Tech's Roosevelt Island campus will be largest and tallest sustainable high-rise in the world when construction is completed in 2017; passive-house building will maintain comfortable temperatures year round without any active heating or cooling systems. MORE

Apr. 12, 2015

Guide to MBA degree programs based on specific employment outcomes or business field specializations. MORE

Apr. 12, 2015

Graduate business schools are stressing the learning of leadership qualities in their curriculums. MORE

Apr. 12, 2015

Proliferation of Master of Fine Arts degrees, spurred by growing popularity among publishers and prospective writers, raises concerns on future of creative writing. MORE

Mar. 20, 2015

Many universities offering nontraditional MBA programs target their advertising to commuters, using billboards and radio spots, knowing that older, working people are most likely to be interested. MORE

Mar. 4, 2015

Graduate students at Columbia University and several other schools, inspired by New York University's 2013 decision, are seeking union recognition; Columbia has refused, citing 2004 National Labor Relations Board ruling which found that graduate teaching and research assistants were students rather than workers. MORE

Feb. 19, 2015

Carnegie Mellon University mistakenly emails acceptance notices to about 800 applicants for graduate computer science program, then emails them saying acceptance notices were sent in error; CMU becomes latest among big-name colleges to make such a mistake, but error is particularly ironic given fact that school is renowned for quality of its computer science courses. MORE

Dec. 26, 2014

Graduate business schools are beginning to shift emphasis from finance and corporate strategy to digital-age arts of speed and nonstop experimentation of Silicon Valley, adding new courses in statistics, data science and A/B testing; still, applications to business graduate schools fell by 1 percent in 2013, while those for computer science and mathematics graduate programs rose by 11 percent. MORE

Aug. 11, 2014

Beijing Journal; planned Yenching Academy at Peking University, new school offering one-year graduate program in Chinese studies, has stirred resistance from many students and professors; program aimed at producing 'future leaders' is mainly in English and intended for foreigners. MORE

Aug. 4, 2014

As medical groups debate a report finding shortcomings in doctor training programs, what’s missing is talk of lack of oversight in such programs, which receive generous public funding. MORE

Aug. 3, 2014

Students' Twitter posts capture their thoughts about graduate school. MORE

Aug. 3, 2014

Physician assistant is becoming one of fastest growing professions in United States due to shortage of doctors; field is also attracting many new students eager to enter medical field without having to deal with the MCAT or residencies, and schools are responding by adding more programs. MORE

Aug. 3, 2014

Experts point out that it is very difficult for students from less competitive colleges to gain admission to top graduate schools, undermining common advice that master's degree is more important to career ambitions than undergraduate education. MORE

Aug. 3, 2014

Experts in library science, education, architecture, journalism and business, fields that require graduate study, offer advice to students and prospective students. MORE

Aug. 3, 2014

Several types of professional schools, which teach specific set of career skills that often lead to certification, and their acceptance rates and job market prospects, profiled. MORE

Jun. 1, 2014

Video game enthusiasts are increasingly enrolling in MFA graduate programs for game design, eager to benefit from some of nation's top game designers; many of these accomplished designers are joining higher education to share knowledge that they have accrued in multibillion-dollar field for which, not long ago, there was no formal training or coursework. MORE

Apr. 13, 2014

San Francisco clothier Betabrand asks women who are PhD or doctoral candidates to model for its smart new spring fashions. MORE

Mar. 28, 2014

News analysis; decision by National Labor Relations Board allowing Northwestern University college football players to form union fits into long and familiar trend: higher education is today less a rite of passage in which institutions serve in loco parentis, and more a commercial transaction between school and student; graduate students are forming unions, or trying to, at growing number of universities. MORE

Feb. 16, 2014

Nicholas Kristof Op-Ed column contends that American academics play a minimal role in today's great debates in part because they have marginalized themselves; points to emphasis on publishing in peer-reviewed journals, which are not often widely available to the public, and admonishments for writing personal blogs, and urges academics to stop cloistering themselves. MORE

Dec. 13, 2013

Graduate teaching and research assistants at New York University vote overwhelmingly to unionzie; as affiliates of the United Automobile Workers, they will make up the only such union in the country recognized by a private university. MORE

Nov. 27, 2013

New York University and union for graduate assistants announces they have reached agreement under which university will again recognize and bargain with union if majority vote in favor of having union representation; school's president John Sexton has been criticized for 2005 decision to stop recognizing labor union that represented some 1,200 assistants. MORE

Nov. 21, 2013

Carnegie Mellon University announces plans for an applied sciences program in New York City; it will be the fourth institution of higher learning, and the first from out of state, to announce such plans; program will be in Steiner Studios in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. MORE

Nov. 3, 2013

Past several years have seen surge in efforts to connect PhD's with gratifying employment outside of academia, and even to rethink doctoral education itself. MORE

Nov. 3, 2013

Several programs that help doctorate-holders transition out of academia are noted. MORE

Sep. 8, 2013

Aggressive program at Harvard Business School that was intended to foster female success has brought improvements, but also fostered resentment and uncertainty; even deans of the program say that it has brought unintended consequences, and many observe that the more exquisitely gender-sensitive the school environment became, the less resemblance it bore to the business world. MORE

Aug. 18, 2013

Georgia Institute of Technology is planning in 2014 to offer master's degree in computer science through massive open online courses for fraction of on-campus cost, first for an elite institution; if course even approaches its goal of drawing thousands of students, it could signal a change to the landscape of higher education (Series: Virtual U). MORE

Aug. 15, 2013

Bloomberg administration releases scorecards for a dozen teacher-preparation programs at colleges in New York City; results-oriented evaluates public and private education schools in variety of ways, including whether many graduates are certified in high-needs areas and whether their teachers have been able to increase student test scores. MORE

Jul. 12, 2013

Report by National Foundation for American Policy says international students make up 70 percent of full-time electrical engineering graduate students in United States. MORE

May. 15, 2013

Some people who have retired from their jobs go for advanced degrees, either for a new career or for the thrill of learning for themselves; several retiree-students are briefly profiled. MORE

Apr. 23, 2013

Cornell Tech, applied sciences graduate school slated to be built on Manhattan's Roosevelt Island, receives gift of $133 million to fund Technion-Cornell Innovation Institute, joint project with Technion-Israel Institute of Technology; institute will bear name of donors, Qualcomm founder Irwin Jacobs and his wife Joan. MORE

Apr. 14, 2013

Cornell NYC Tech, winner of Mayor Michael R Bloomberg's contest to create a new science school, is up and running in Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan; new graduate school is part of unorthodox curriculum designed to eschew the traditional detached, academic approach to learning in favor of business, technology and real-world experience. MORE

Apr. 8, 2013

Council of Graduate Schools report shows number of international students applying to graduate schools in United States increased just 1 percent in 2013, after 9 percent rise in 2012 and 11 percent gain in 2011. MORE

Oct. 15, 2012

Campus of Cornell NYC Tech, graduate school for technology projected to open in 2017, is expected to transform Manhattan's Roosevelt Island from a sleepy community into a high-tech hothouse. MORE

Sep. 28, 2012

Council of Graduate Schools report finds the number of students enrolled in master's and doctoral programs declined by 1.7 percent from the fall of 2010 to fall 2011, the second consecutive annual decline; trend could be related to debt-aversion by students facing a weak economy and diminishing opportunities for financial aid. MORE

Aug. 29, 2012

American universities offer linguistics training so that students, colleagues and potential employers of foreign graduate students can comprehend what they say; Ohio University is a leader in helping foreign students adapt to American life; 300,000 foreign graduate students attend American universities. MORE

Aug. 12, 2012

Adam Davidson It's the Economy column reflects that the elite-business-school industry may be thriving, but it is missing out on the opportunity to help provide millions of potential entrepreneurs throughout the world with a basic business education. MORE

Jul. 31, 2012

Columbia University will receive $15 million in financial help from New York City to significantly expand its engineering school. MORE

Jul. 8, 2012

University of Washington’s reputation as an incubator of tech talent is growing, attracting more job offers from Silicon Valley executives; computer science and engineering department has deepened its ties with tech firms like Google, helping to gain an edge in teaching programming for the cloud, a big trend in computing; graduate program is ranked seventh in the nation. MORE

Apr. 15, 2012

Grades of C, D or F are rare among graduate students; educators say the grad-school grade distribution is due in part to the fact that graduate students are older adults who want to be in school, but it is also a result of escalating grade inflation and the practice of passing students with lackluster performance. MORE

Mar. 1, 2012

Professionals 25 and older are seeking out independent education consultants to strengthen their applications for selective bachelors and masters degree programs. MORE

Mar. 1, 2012

Students young and older are flocking to sports management programs, lured by the glamour of sports or prompted by a mid-career desire to put existing skills to work in a new field; many universities, eager to develop new moneymaking ventures, are happy to accommodate them. MORE

Nov. 8, 2011

News analysis; Mayor Michael R Bloomberg and members of his inner circle are increasingly focused on the competition they created to build a high-tech graduate school in New York City, which many of them believe could become a major part of his legacy; although an advisory panel has a role to play in reviewing the seven proposals received from major universities around the globe, decision as to who gets to build what, and where, will ultimately rest with the mayor. MORE

Nov. 6, 2011

Several musings from grad school student Twitter users described. MORE

Nov. 1, 2011

Seven university groups have submitted proposals to build school of engineering and applied sciences in New York City, vying for early entry into what they hope will become a technology industry partnership with the city; Mayor Michael R Bloomberg has expressed hope that New York can come to rival places like Boston and Silicon Valley as a high-tech hub. MORE

Oct. 17, 2011

Stanford and Cornell appear to be top contenders in competition for $400 million in land and subsidies to build science and engineering graduate school on New York City's Roosevelt Island; city officials are trying to discourage notion that there are front-runners. MORE

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